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Usually we have about 3000 hits per day on our main site. Yesterday we had over 10000 hits, making this the best day in our history.
Distrowatch brings about 50 visitors on a daily basis, but yesterday there were 1800.
People download about 100 isos per day, yesterday our isos were downloaded more than 600 times.

As I mentioned in the testing thread, I already wrote the Multi-DVD to my 8GB USB Stick and booted it all ok on 64-Bit SolydK. I plan to use that stick to go ahead and (re)install on my 32-bit laptop (mostly as a test to see how it all goes). I use that laptop as a spare anyway so it's not a big deal to blitz it and restart over.

As for the downloads and word getting around, hopefully it will for the Business Editions as well. Then I think when Windows XP is EOL fully (I hear they are extending security updates) then I bet businesses could consider SolydBE for a new solution.

As for me, I'm sticking to testing/using the SolydK Home Edition for now.

Usually we have about 3000 hits per day on our main site. Yesterday we had over 10000 hits, making this the best day in our history.
Distrowatch brings about 50 visitors on a daily basis, but yesterday there were 1800.
People download about 100 isos per day, yesterday our isos were downloaded more than 600 times.

Fantastic, yes, and only natural. If one is into Debian at all, the natural evolutionary process will bring them here sooner or later. Darwin would be proud.

RavenLX wrote:
As for the downloads and word getting around, hopefully it will for the Business Editions as well. Then I think when Windows XP is EOL fully (I hear they are extending security updates) then I bet businesses could consider SolydBE for a new solution.

As a result, after April 8, 2014, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available, including automatic updates that help protect your PC. Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows XP on this date. (If you already have Microsoft Security Essentials installed, you will continue to receive anti-malware signature updates for a limited time, but this does not mean that your PC will be secure because Microsoft will no longer be providing security updates to protect your PC.)

Scott
Quoting zerozero, "The usage of PPA's in debian-based
systems is risky at best and entails serious compatibility
problems; usually it's the best way to destroy an install"

I just installed 32-bit SolydK onto my spare laptop using the recent Multi-DVD ISO (201401). It installed well but there are a few bugs:

1. python-ufw is not installed by default, so firewall is not able to take new settings. The previous DVD (201311 I think it was) had that pre-installed so it worked out of the box. Now it's broken. Workaround: $ sudo apt-get install -y python-ufw (thank you zerozero for telling me how to fix this).

2. In relation to #1, I think it would be most secure to have the firewall turned on by default and allow only outgoing but not incoming (so that one can use the web, email, etc.).

4. Login screens show blank backgrounds (ie. not the wallpaper shown in the login theme chooser). This has also been a problem in the previous iso.

5. gimp-plugin-registry is no longer included? I loved that one and had to manually search for it and download it online. I would have liked to still be able to install it in the software manager.

6. sendmail has broken packages. Workaround: Run Synaptic Package Manager. Be sure that sendmail is not marked for installation. Edit - Fix Broken Packages. Then Reload. Now sendmail can be marked for installation and installed. I use this for local development purposes so not sure if it would affect most users.

I've removed all the older torrent versions and replaced them with the newer on my seedbox.
Please advise if the 32-bit SolydK with the noted issues is modified so I can replace it if that is necessary.

RavenLX wrote:4. Login screens show blank backgrounds (ie. not the wallpaper shown in the login theme chooser). This has also been a problem in the previous iso.

Schoelje wrote:4. That sounds like a hardware issue (haven't seen that behavior before).

Actually, I just found out it's a software issue. I looked into it. There are two problems (I will use oxygen-air as the example as that is what I fixed but it's the same for the other ones):

1. The .xml file (/usr/share/kde4/kdm/themes/oxygen-air directory) only lists "Air" as the background wallpaper. It should be "Air.jpg".

2. There is no Air.jpg on the system. It wasn't included. It should be put in /usr/share/wallpapers directory. I found a copy online by using google image search and put it in that directory.

Once I did the above two steps, the login screen for that theme now shows the background wallpaper just fine.

Schoelje wrote:6. I think if you first install sendmail-bin, you can install sendmail without problems.

When installing sendmail, it marks sendmail-bin and a couple other things for sendmail. I think the problem might be in trying to remove "dummy" packages like exim (there's a dummy package installed for it, I think - though I could be wrong) and another one that starts with an "l" (I am sorry I didn't note the packages removed and too lazy to look it all up in dpkg log at the moment). I didn't think of just looking for and installing only sendmail-bin. If I need to reinstall ever again I will have to remember to try that out.

Thanks ZeroZero for the sendmail install line. I'll put that in my notes.

Now if they could just get all the depenencies ready and test the gimp-plugin-registry, I'll be greatly happy! Guess the folks at debian are handling that one. For now I found a copy and downloaded and installed it so even though it's an old copy, hopefully it'll work. I don't think I have it on my Production (daily use/testing) machine. It's on the 32-bit one though.

Notsonoble wrote:Is there a reason ping requires sudo in this ISO and its install? It wasn't that way previously.

I've noticed that also with ifconfig. I personally think that requiring sudo to run net operations such as ping and ifconfig is a good idea because then it reduces security risk of non-authorized users (or those that may put in a program against the user's knowledge) to get IP information from your computer and be able to ping from your computer. I would like those commmands to keep requiring 'sudo' to run.

As someone who does network support for a living. It's all kinds of bad. I DON'T want my network monitoring software which runs automated pings and other tests running at elevated privileges. Nor do I want people who I'm helping troubleshoot their personal machines having to deal with simple testing requiring elevated privileges if the user who happens to be on the other end of the phone doesn't have them.